128 Birth of a new weapon (1/2)

Evlin suddenly felt her leg vibrating. She checked to see what it was and realized that her phone was ringing.

”Oh... It's Chloe!” She said as she noticed the name of her therapist showing up on her screen. Evlin was so focused on the whole thing with Mia that she completely forgot about their appointment today.

”Hey, Chloe... Sorry I didn't give you any answers sooner... I've been... Kinda busy lately...”

”Oh my God, the art classes!!” Evlin screamed as she remembered the lessons she was supposed to give tomorrow to her students.

”Ah, sorry... No, it's not that... I've had... Some family problems that I need to attend to... I probably won't be able to come to our meetings for a while... Sorry!”

”Yeah... They've been helping a lot... Especially now...”

”Thanks, Chloe! Bye, bye.” Said Evlin as she ended the call and placed her phone back in her pocket. ”Ugh... I need to let my boss know that I won't be able to teach for a while... This sucks so much... I was so excited about tomorrow's class.”

As Evlin crossed her arms and began to picture the disappointed faces of her students, as well as realizing she also was making her niece skip her own classes as well and was beginning to wonder if she might be a bad influence on Ellie, she felt a finger poking her on the cheek coming out of nowhere.

She noticed that Lilith was right in front of her pointing her finger, which led Evlin to grab and use her whistle. ”That's the sixth time now, Ellie, minus ten points!”

”Goddammit!!!” Said Ellie in frustration.

”Hey!! Language, little miss!” Evlin said with a harsh tone.

”Sorry.”

Evlin looked at her surroundings. Several small pillars of blue diamond emerging from the ground surrounding her slowly sinking into the grass while Lilith started to back away to make some distance between Evlin and her.

On the other side was Ellie breathing heavily trying to focus and watching Lilith like a hawk.

”Ok, everyone ready? One more time!” Evlin said as she clapped her hands and blew her whistle.

Lilith then began to run towards Evlin. Upon seeing that, Ellie started to wave her hands up and down, left and right, desperately trying to stop her movements and keeping her away from her aunt by making several diamonds block her path.

Thanks to Lilith's incredible agility and reflexes, she was able to dodge all of it with ease and continued her sprint towards the woman dressed as a gym teacher.

The three ladies were playing keep-away right now. Lilith was supposed to pretend to be a monster trying to attack Evlin, which in turn would trigger Ellie's desire to protect her family and help her release her diamonds. The goal right now was to make the girl get used to the feeling of releasing magic so that she could find a way to do it on her own, as well as trying to develop the skills to use it in combat in case it became necessary.

Every time Lilith managed to dodge all of the diamonds and poked Evlin's face, the girl would lose ten of her one-hundred points. If she lost it all, it was game over.

”Aaaaarghhh!!” Ellie screamed in frustration at the sight of her aunt blowing the whistle one more time after Lilith touched Evlin's nose. ”I had it this time!!!”

”You already lost seventy points Ellie, you need to up your game.” Evlin said as she signaled for the two to restart their positions. ”Ready? Go!”

Just like before, Lilith dodged all of the diamonds Ellie created to stop her progress. Lilith was so used to dodging enemies thanks to her constant use of future sight and her superior speed using her silver armor that Ellie's diamonds basically looked like they were moving in slow motion right now.

The girl tried her best, but before she noticed, Lilith had her hand on Evlin's forehead.

”Careful, Ellie... You're down to twenty points left.” Her aunt said while approaching the whistle to her lips.

”Aunt Evie, this isn't working!! I can't stop her no matter how hard I try!”

”That's because you're still not connecting with your power. You keep doing the same thing over and over again hoping it will work.”

”But... But...” The girl sat on the grass to take a small break.

”Every time Lilith runs, you try to block her by making diamonds show up in front of her, but she is just too agile for you to capture her. Instead of trying to follow her, make her follow you!”

”Make her follow me?” Ellie said while catching her breath a little.

”Think, Ellie! What does Lilith wants? What is she trying to do?”

”What does she wants...? She wants... She wants...” Ellie said as she stared at Lilith returning to her position.

Ellie then stood up to try one more time. She needed to make Lilith follow her. And to do that, she needed to know what Lilith wanted. Right now, Lilith's goal was to reach her aunt, so to lead her somewhere else, she needed to...

”Ah!! I think I got it!”

”Good, now let's begin!” Evlin blew her whistle again, and just like before, Lilith started to run at her.

Usually, Ellie would try to block Lilith's path by making pillars appear in front of her. But now she was down to her last couple of points and needed to change her strategy. Instead of focusing on Lillith, she needed to focus on her target, Evlin.

As the woman started to approach her aunt, Ellie created a large diamond beneath Evlin's feet and raised her a little towards the air on top of a blue tower of diamonds.

”Oh... That's different...” Said Evlin while looking at Lilith a few feet below her.

Lilith realized Ellie's expression and saw that she was smiling a bit full of pride in her idea. ”Not bad...”

”Hihi... Thanks!” Ellie answered with a wide grin.

”But still not enough!”

”Eh!?”

And before Ellie noticed, Lilith began to climb the tower while using the small edges she could spot to propel herself up.

”Hey!!” Ellie screamed while trying to stop her, but she used so much magic that she had no more stamina left to do any more diamonds.

Lilith finally reached the top of the tower and found Evlin laying with her back facing the sky and her hands holding her chin just enjoying the view. She then poked Evlin on the middle of her forehead. ”If this was Mia, you would have died nine times by now...”

”I love you too Lilith, now help me down... You know I don't like heights...” Said Evlin.